By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Dec. 12, the 347th day of 2024. There are 19 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 12, 2000, George W. Bush became president-elect as a divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state court recount decision in Florida’s tightly contested ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Dec. 11, the 346th day of 2024. There are 20 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 11, 1936, Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson; his brother, Prince Albert, ...

By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Dec. 10, the 345th day of 2024. There are 21 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 10, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate peace in ...

By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Dec. 9, the 344th day of 2024. There are 22 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 9, 1979, scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, a disease which killed an estimated 300 million people in the 20th century. Also on ...

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Dec. 6, the 341st day of 2024. There are 25 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified as Georgia became the 27th state to endorse it. Also on this ...

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Dec. 5, the 340th day of 2024. There are 26 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 5, 2013, Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first Black president, died at age 95. Also on this date: In 1848, in ...